jimmahjim
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Btw feel free to add comments as many times as you wish, I will still post my grow journal and pics if I can figure out how, help?
So lets start with day one...
2/14/10- Planted about ten seeds in a small planter, which was black cylindrical and deep. They were placed in bathroom for humidity and warmth. I got my soil from outside, VERY full of pebbles and rocks but hey its the southwest.
2/15/10- Planted another seed, no other changes.
2/16/10- 3 Sprouts, 1 about an inch tall, which I pulled the seed off of the top of. At first all three looked like a plant root going in and out of ground but it was green like a stem, then one of the ends popped up as two oval leaves (Cotyledons) with two smaller, pointy perpendicular leaves (true leaves, first node) on top.
2/17/10- Amazing 10 sprouts, I transplanted one healthy one and one weaker looking one. They transplanted into a planter in my living room, with store bought soil and a 100 watt reptile lamp with a 60watt household lamp for extra support, near a sliding glass door, in the bathroom I added a 100watt reptile light and my 8 plants are underneath two adjacent mirrors on perpendicular walls. This is all as of 3:42 when I added the lights, more on this later.
10:24pm- The living room planter now has three transplanted sprouts, two unhealthy. I accidentally pulled out the 3rd sprout when I was aerating the soil, in the bathroom with a toothpick earlier in the day. 4 sprouts seem to be doing exceedingly well. I added some soil to the top of the bathroom planter which is currently in the kitchen under the fluorescent lights. 3 of the sprouts that are doing well are in this planter, the others have just broken surface. The 4 good ones are about one to two inches tall and soooo cute.
2/18/10- 3:04am- After many unavoidable, heart rendering transplants and the addition of 2 more pots the final stand is this, there are three sprouts in two of the black cylindrical pots, with a fourth sprouting in the first container with rocky soil. There are two in the remaining black cylindrical pot. The tenth and final sprout so far is being implemented into a new system. A hydroponic system where I dip a rock enclosed sprout's roots in water with some nutrients added every time it gets dry. More on that later. As for lighting I still have the two reptile lights but I added a halogen light to a planter that now contains tomatoes, so less talk of this. The black cylindrical pots are in the kitchen with a reptile light with two fluorescent lights in the ceiling. I think my money is on the middle sprout in the center of the original container.
11:59pm- Today's growth has been interesting to say the least. I stopped the hydroponic system early, too difficult, I transplanted the sprout into the soil once more. I then added crushed up vitamins, dissolved in water to the plants soil. I did this early in the day, the plants have doubled in size from yesterday. Late last night I had decided that one of the ten sprouts wouldn't grow because it was malnourished and had barely broken the surface when it had to be transplanted. After watering the sprout after transplantation it was buried once more, too frail to stand up to the power of the dirt. I left it in there for hopes sake.... in the pm the sprout broke the surface yay. I decided to name the ten sprouts. In the first cylindrical black pot (Named Pallet Town), with rocky soil has the best growth with three 4 inches of stem growth and with leaves that are outgrowing the original sprouting leaves. I have named the three plants Oddish, Chikorita, and Bellsprout. Chikorita being the biggest and most healthy. Viridian Forest is the second black cylindrical pot which has store bought soil. These plants are doing ok at about 3 inches tall. In this forest we have 4 sprouts, Tangela, Bulbasaur, Celebi (the legendary death defying plant), and finally Nuzleaf the evolved form of Seedot. These pokemon, weed plants, are doing ok with the exception of Celebi which has barely broken the surface and has malformed leaves. Third we have Celadon City which is identical in soil as Viridian Forest, but the plants (Turtwig, Hoppip, and Treecko) are less colored and smaller at about 1 inch to 2 inches tall.
2/19/10- 9:34 pm- Pallet Town is thriving, the leaves are now close to twice the size of the original sprouting leaves. The stem growth seems to have slowed as stems are only slightly longer than the plants following in their path. The rocky soil is winning the sprouting competition but how will it do in the vegetative state. The plants are about 4 ½ to 5 inches tall with visible evidence of further growth at the intersection of the two biggest leaves. There is however a tiny brown spot on one of Oddish's, the smallest of the giants, leaf. Though Chikorita and Bellsprout are the same height, the leaves on the former are bigger and the stem is thicker. As for the Viridian Forest, The plants are around 3 ½ to 4 inches tall, with Tangela being the biggest and Nuzleaf being the smallest, with the exception of Celebi which has not shown any improvement since yesterday. Sad day for Celebi, maybe tomorrow? Within Celadon City the plants are around 2-4 inches tall with Turtwig being the biggest and Treecko the smallest. Lighting has changed to 2 100 watt reptile basking bulbs, 2 fluorescent tubes at an unknown wattage in my kitchen's ceiling, A 15 watt fluorescent tube behind the sink and a 60 watt incandescent bulb. The kitchen is painted white and the plants are on the metallic stove with some aluminum foil to help out maybe a bit. Keep in mind of course that all of the cute plant-type pokemon were germinated in Pallet Town within two daysish, therefore, all of the plants outside of Pallet Town have been transplanted and their growth may have been stunted. Also, without telling my growing partner I added garlic powder and hair to Celadon City and Cigarette ash to Pallet Town. I left the Virdian Forest alone as a control.
2/20/10- 1:59pm- My first tragedy of the season occurred today, my biggest plant, Chikorita and another Turtwig, look like the base of their stems have been pinched and the plants have fallen over. Treecko also fell over but fortunately did not have the pinched look on the stem. I felt the soil first thing and it was dry and hot, the reptile lights must be too close. I watered all the plants and placed two pens on each side of the fallen plants, shoved into the soil, with a rubber band extended between them where I placed the plants so they have some growth support. Turtwig has already become able to stand on its own. Also in the Viridian Forest Tangela has developed a brown leaf. In lighter news Pallet Town has two new plants? I didn't know I planted 12 seeds, Celebi seems to still be dead. So that leaves me with 11 sprouts.
3:37pm- All of the plants with the exception of Turtwig are showing new growth tips, with Pallet Town containing both the largest and smallest sprouts. I transplanted one of the healthy new sprouts which I have named Ledyba. It is in my tomato and rosemary flower pot in the Living Room which I have named Cinnabar Island. Here it is in the same soil as is apparent in Celadon City and the Viridian Forest. Here it has an incandescent light that is 60 watts as well as an open window. There are also the normal lights in my house that surround it. As for Celadon City, the Viridian Forest and Pallet Town they now have the 3 fluorescent lights, one about a foot long at 15 watts, the other two are about 3-4 feet long and in the ceiling of my kitchen. The also still have the two reptile lights on them, though I moved them farther away because of the heat. Aluminum foil still surrounds it, dull side pointed toward the plants. I also covered the black, inside walls of the planter with the same aluminum foil. Watching for heat problems. There is a vent on low about two feet above the plants.
5:00pm- Chikorita and Turtwig seem to be reacting differently to the support system. Chikorita, my biggest plant, is standing upright, with support only, and is has big luscious leaves that are only slightly browning. Turtwig seems to be shriveling and dying. :'( I cut about a third of all of the leaves off of Tangela because I heard it could have good effects... we will see. This is all about experimenting with my growing. No difference has been noticed with the new sprouts Ledyba, on Cinnabar Island, and Bonsly, still in Pallet Town because of its immature nature, having leaves that haven't opened yet.
10:42pm: A friend of mine handed me some seeds to this pretty good reggies bud that he had. I figured maybe with a little THC, oh I mean TLC, they could grow to be delicious plants to maybe breed with my own sprouts. I extracted Celebi to find that its roots had detached? IDK, it was fucked up. In its memory I have planted Charmander from Celebi's shatter remains, in the Viridian Forest. I also planted another friend for the Celedon City folk who I have named Magby. I reapplied the fertalizer mix of 5-9-4 to the Viridian Forest and Pallet Town. I added water to Celadon City, the plants here are sickly lookin and droopy. I have supported them for today but I do not believe they will be able to continually hold themselves up. The pinched looking roots on Chikorita and Turtwig are really worrying me. I thought that perhaps it was due to drying of the bottom of the stems where the top layer of soil had dried the night before, so I buried the shriveling bottoms of the stems only slightly under the surface. There are tiny pieces of wood from the soil keeping Turtwig upright. However, Chikorita is a little more top heavy so the shriveling effected her more. She, hopefully she, is being supported in a standing position with the pen-and-rubber-band method with the wood piece method. I have begun blowing on my plants as well as bending them lightly everyday to hopefully induce stalk and root strength. Thats what I heard at least, but who cares if I don't know if it works I'm playing. I also like to try and blow the dust off of them, or wipe them off. I'm very playful with my growing methods so I don't get disappointed I think, I just play and have fun with it. I also diluted my fertilizer after thoroughly flooding Cinnabar Island with it. I figure these large amounts of nutrients early on will be a stepping stone for these plants, maybe they will adapt. But regardless I diluted the fertilizer water even further to about a quarter of its normal strength, tomorrow in the morning I will water the plants with normal water and at night I will water them with the ¼ strength fertilizer because my soil tends to dry quickly, I can only hope that I do not burn my plants. By the way...surprise, along with Ledyba I planted 4 more residents in Cinnabar Island, I will be naming them Ponyta, Cyndaquil, Numel, and Torchic. They are all still seeds but they will grow, hopefully. The other seeds I have soaked in the fertilizer mixtured on a paper towel in my kitchen, the healthiest ones will be transplanted. My plants are not going to get very big before I induce the flowering stage... in my closet, Victory Road. Right now they do not have a smell at all. But I am getting ahead of myself, they have not even completed their seedling phase. And to finish everything up Cinnabar Island has been moved into the kitchen for the night wrapped in the same aluminum ring as the rest of the planters. All of the aforementioned lights have been directed at these 4 planters. The fan is on high and the soil is moist. Bellsprout is the new largest plant, with a third set of leaves clearly visible with the naked eye from a good distance and the second set of leaves growing easily three times the size of the seedling leaves.
2/21/10- 2:38am- I added pure cane sugar to my fertilizer mix, about two tablespoons in a gallon jar. Hopefully this will help add flavor to the plants and help growth by increasing carbohydrate ingestion. I also added some weed ash and stems to the soil in Pallet Town for fun. Chikorita, is now officially the biggest plant. But the healthiest/biggest plant is still Bellsprout, when will Chikorita finally stand up on her own. Turtwig is still looking bad. I am planning on drizzling water over the plants and on the top soil before bed because my plants had issues with drying out last night.
3:13pm- I added some of my own urine to the fertilizer, mutli-vitamin and sugar combination. I added about 5% urine per gallon. My recipe, 5% urine, trace amounts of the multi-vitamin, and the fertilizer water itself is about 25% strenght. I'm going to slowly introduce more and more fertilizer slowly in hopes that my plants will adapt and start using more nutrients for growing. As for the current standing, I have wonderful news in Pallet Town, after compressing some looser soil around the base of Chikorita, she is now able to stand up on her own but it has become obvious that her growth was stunted by the dry spell. Chikorita's first set of true leaves has a half brown leaf. I cut off that half of the leaf and added it to Viridian Forest for mulch. I have been adding any pruning or clippings to this area. Bellsprout and Oddish have grown past Chikorita by like 1-2 centimeters, with the former being the largest of any of my plants so far. Bellsprout has been able to support herself, hopefully her, for the whole time and is showing a set of very distinct 2nd node which has leaves about 1 cm long. For some unknown reason the Viridian Forest has only had one slight browning leaf problem with Tangela. Other than that they are all growing normally, smaller than Chikorita, with the exception of Nuzleaf which is the same size as Chikorita but has smaller leaves, 2nd node clearly visible in all plants but Ledyba, and Turtwig who is still looking kinda withery. Unfortunately, I fear Turtwig will die, in which case he will be torn apart and used as mulch for the Virdian Forest, but for now we wait. Ledyba, in Cinnabar island, seems to be only a day or two behind Turtwig, its growing fast. There is a 4th sprout which I have mentioned in Pallet Town but never named, Its new name shall be Roselia. It has not yet spread its Cotyledons. I added the fertilizer mix to Celadon City to hopefully give it some carbohydrates from the sugar which has been completely dissolved in the concoction overnight. Treecko is the only really healthy looking plant in the planter. More later.
So lets start with day one...
2/14/10- Planted about ten seeds in a small planter, which was black cylindrical and deep. They were placed in bathroom for humidity and warmth. I got my soil from outside, VERY full of pebbles and rocks but hey its the southwest.
2/15/10- Planted another seed, no other changes.
2/16/10- 3 Sprouts, 1 about an inch tall, which I pulled the seed off of the top of. At first all three looked like a plant root going in and out of ground but it was green like a stem, then one of the ends popped up as two oval leaves (Cotyledons) with two smaller, pointy perpendicular leaves (true leaves, first node) on top.
2/17/10- Amazing 10 sprouts, I transplanted one healthy one and one weaker looking one. They transplanted into a planter in my living room, with store bought soil and a 100 watt reptile lamp with a 60watt household lamp for extra support, near a sliding glass door, in the bathroom I added a 100watt reptile light and my 8 plants are underneath two adjacent mirrors on perpendicular walls. This is all as of 3:42 when I added the lights, more on this later.
10:24pm- The living room planter now has three transplanted sprouts, two unhealthy. I accidentally pulled out the 3rd sprout when I was aerating the soil, in the bathroom with a toothpick earlier in the day. 4 sprouts seem to be doing exceedingly well. I added some soil to the top of the bathroom planter which is currently in the kitchen under the fluorescent lights. 3 of the sprouts that are doing well are in this planter, the others have just broken surface. The 4 good ones are about one to two inches tall and soooo cute.
2/18/10- 3:04am- After many unavoidable, heart rendering transplants and the addition of 2 more pots the final stand is this, there are three sprouts in two of the black cylindrical pots, with a fourth sprouting in the first container with rocky soil. There are two in the remaining black cylindrical pot. The tenth and final sprout so far is being implemented into a new system. A hydroponic system where I dip a rock enclosed sprout's roots in water with some nutrients added every time it gets dry. More on that later. As for lighting I still have the two reptile lights but I added a halogen light to a planter that now contains tomatoes, so less talk of this. The black cylindrical pots are in the kitchen with a reptile light with two fluorescent lights in the ceiling. I think my money is on the middle sprout in the center of the original container.
11:59pm- Today's growth has been interesting to say the least. I stopped the hydroponic system early, too difficult, I transplanted the sprout into the soil once more. I then added crushed up vitamins, dissolved in water to the plants soil. I did this early in the day, the plants have doubled in size from yesterday. Late last night I had decided that one of the ten sprouts wouldn't grow because it was malnourished and had barely broken the surface when it had to be transplanted. After watering the sprout after transplantation it was buried once more, too frail to stand up to the power of the dirt. I left it in there for hopes sake.... in the pm the sprout broke the surface yay. I decided to name the ten sprouts. In the first cylindrical black pot (Named Pallet Town), with rocky soil has the best growth with three 4 inches of stem growth and with leaves that are outgrowing the original sprouting leaves. I have named the three plants Oddish, Chikorita, and Bellsprout. Chikorita being the biggest and most healthy. Viridian Forest is the second black cylindrical pot which has store bought soil. These plants are doing ok at about 3 inches tall. In this forest we have 4 sprouts, Tangela, Bulbasaur, Celebi (the legendary death defying plant), and finally Nuzleaf the evolved form of Seedot. These pokemon, weed plants, are doing ok with the exception of Celebi which has barely broken the surface and has malformed leaves. Third we have Celadon City which is identical in soil as Viridian Forest, but the plants (Turtwig, Hoppip, and Treecko) are less colored and smaller at about 1 inch to 2 inches tall.
2/19/10- 9:34 pm- Pallet Town is thriving, the leaves are now close to twice the size of the original sprouting leaves. The stem growth seems to have slowed as stems are only slightly longer than the plants following in their path. The rocky soil is winning the sprouting competition but how will it do in the vegetative state. The plants are about 4 ½ to 5 inches tall with visible evidence of further growth at the intersection of the two biggest leaves. There is however a tiny brown spot on one of Oddish's, the smallest of the giants, leaf. Though Chikorita and Bellsprout are the same height, the leaves on the former are bigger and the stem is thicker. As for the Viridian Forest, The plants are around 3 ½ to 4 inches tall, with Tangela being the biggest and Nuzleaf being the smallest, with the exception of Celebi which has not shown any improvement since yesterday. Sad day for Celebi, maybe tomorrow? Within Celadon City the plants are around 2-4 inches tall with Turtwig being the biggest and Treecko the smallest. Lighting has changed to 2 100 watt reptile basking bulbs, 2 fluorescent tubes at an unknown wattage in my kitchen's ceiling, A 15 watt fluorescent tube behind the sink and a 60 watt incandescent bulb. The kitchen is painted white and the plants are on the metallic stove with some aluminum foil to help out maybe a bit. Keep in mind of course that all of the cute plant-type pokemon were germinated in Pallet Town within two daysish, therefore, all of the plants outside of Pallet Town have been transplanted and their growth may have been stunted. Also, without telling my growing partner I added garlic powder and hair to Celadon City and Cigarette ash to Pallet Town. I left the Virdian Forest alone as a control.
2/20/10- 1:59pm- My first tragedy of the season occurred today, my biggest plant, Chikorita and another Turtwig, look like the base of their stems have been pinched and the plants have fallen over. Treecko also fell over but fortunately did not have the pinched look on the stem. I felt the soil first thing and it was dry and hot, the reptile lights must be too close. I watered all the plants and placed two pens on each side of the fallen plants, shoved into the soil, with a rubber band extended between them where I placed the plants so they have some growth support. Turtwig has already become able to stand on its own. Also in the Viridian Forest Tangela has developed a brown leaf. In lighter news Pallet Town has two new plants? I didn't know I planted 12 seeds, Celebi seems to still be dead. So that leaves me with 11 sprouts.
3:37pm- All of the plants with the exception of Turtwig are showing new growth tips, with Pallet Town containing both the largest and smallest sprouts. I transplanted one of the healthy new sprouts which I have named Ledyba. It is in my tomato and rosemary flower pot in the Living Room which I have named Cinnabar Island. Here it is in the same soil as is apparent in Celadon City and the Viridian Forest. Here it has an incandescent light that is 60 watts as well as an open window. There are also the normal lights in my house that surround it. As for Celadon City, the Viridian Forest and Pallet Town they now have the 3 fluorescent lights, one about a foot long at 15 watts, the other two are about 3-4 feet long and in the ceiling of my kitchen. The also still have the two reptile lights on them, though I moved them farther away because of the heat. Aluminum foil still surrounds it, dull side pointed toward the plants. I also covered the black, inside walls of the planter with the same aluminum foil. Watching for heat problems. There is a vent on low about two feet above the plants.
5:00pm- Chikorita and Turtwig seem to be reacting differently to the support system. Chikorita, my biggest plant, is standing upright, with support only, and is has big luscious leaves that are only slightly browning. Turtwig seems to be shriveling and dying. :'( I cut about a third of all of the leaves off of Tangela because I heard it could have good effects... we will see. This is all about experimenting with my growing. No difference has been noticed with the new sprouts Ledyba, on Cinnabar Island, and Bonsly, still in Pallet Town because of its immature nature, having leaves that haven't opened yet.
10:42pm: A friend of mine handed me some seeds to this pretty good reggies bud that he had. I figured maybe with a little THC, oh I mean TLC, they could grow to be delicious plants to maybe breed with my own sprouts. I extracted Celebi to find that its roots had detached? IDK, it was fucked up. In its memory I have planted Charmander from Celebi's shatter remains, in the Viridian Forest. I also planted another friend for the Celedon City folk who I have named Magby. I reapplied the fertalizer mix of 5-9-4 to the Viridian Forest and Pallet Town. I added water to Celadon City, the plants here are sickly lookin and droopy. I have supported them for today but I do not believe they will be able to continually hold themselves up. The pinched looking roots on Chikorita and Turtwig are really worrying me. I thought that perhaps it was due to drying of the bottom of the stems where the top layer of soil had dried the night before, so I buried the shriveling bottoms of the stems only slightly under the surface. There are tiny pieces of wood from the soil keeping Turtwig upright. However, Chikorita is a little more top heavy so the shriveling effected her more. She, hopefully she, is being supported in a standing position with the pen-and-rubber-band method with the wood piece method. I have begun blowing on my plants as well as bending them lightly everyday to hopefully induce stalk and root strength. Thats what I heard at least, but who cares if I don't know if it works I'm playing. I also like to try and blow the dust off of them, or wipe them off. I'm very playful with my growing methods so I don't get disappointed I think, I just play and have fun with it. I also diluted my fertilizer after thoroughly flooding Cinnabar Island with it. I figure these large amounts of nutrients early on will be a stepping stone for these plants, maybe they will adapt. But regardless I diluted the fertilizer water even further to about a quarter of its normal strength, tomorrow in the morning I will water the plants with normal water and at night I will water them with the ¼ strength fertilizer because my soil tends to dry quickly, I can only hope that I do not burn my plants. By the way...surprise, along with Ledyba I planted 4 more residents in Cinnabar Island, I will be naming them Ponyta, Cyndaquil, Numel, and Torchic. They are all still seeds but they will grow, hopefully. The other seeds I have soaked in the fertilizer mixtured on a paper towel in my kitchen, the healthiest ones will be transplanted. My plants are not going to get very big before I induce the flowering stage... in my closet, Victory Road. Right now they do not have a smell at all. But I am getting ahead of myself, they have not even completed their seedling phase. And to finish everything up Cinnabar Island has been moved into the kitchen for the night wrapped in the same aluminum ring as the rest of the planters. All of the aforementioned lights have been directed at these 4 planters. The fan is on high and the soil is moist. Bellsprout is the new largest plant, with a third set of leaves clearly visible with the naked eye from a good distance and the second set of leaves growing easily three times the size of the seedling leaves.
2/21/10- 2:38am- I added pure cane sugar to my fertilizer mix, about two tablespoons in a gallon jar. Hopefully this will help add flavor to the plants and help growth by increasing carbohydrate ingestion. I also added some weed ash and stems to the soil in Pallet Town for fun. Chikorita, is now officially the biggest plant. But the healthiest/biggest plant is still Bellsprout, when will Chikorita finally stand up on her own. Turtwig is still looking bad. I am planning on drizzling water over the plants and on the top soil before bed because my plants had issues with drying out last night.
3:13pm- I added some of my own urine to the fertilizer, mutli-vitamin and sugar combination. I added about 5% urine per gallon. My recipe, 5% urine, trace amounts of the multi-vitamin, and the fertilizer water itself is about 25% strenght. I'm going to slowly introduce more and more fertilizer slowly in hopes that my plants will adapt and start using more nutrients for growing. As for the current standing, I have wonderful news in Pallet Town, after compressing some looser soil around the base of Chikorita, she is now able to stand up on her own but it has become obvious that her growth was stunted by the dry spell. Chikorita's first set of true leaves has a half brown leaf. I cut off that half of the leaf and added it to Viridian Forest for mulch. I have been adding any pruning or clippings to this area. Bellsprout and Oddish have grown past Chikorita by like 1-2 centimeters, with the former being the largest of any of my plants so far. Bellsprout has been able to support herself, hopefully her, for the whole time and is showing a set of very distinct 2nd node which has leaves about 1 cm long. For some unknown reason the Viridian Forest has only had one slight browning leaf problem with Tangela. Other than that they are all growing normally, smaller than Chikorita, with the exception of Nuzleaf which is the same size as Chikorita but has smaller leaves, 2nd node clearly visible in all plants but Ledyba, and Turtwig who is still looking kinda withery. Unfortunately, I fear Turtwig will die, in which case he will be torn apart and used as mulch for the Virdian Forest, but for now we wait. Ledyba, in Cinnabar island, seems to be only a day or two behind Turtwig, its growing fast. There is a 4th sprout which I have mentioned in Pallet Town but never named, Its new name shall be Roselia. It has not yet spread its Cotyledons. I added the fertilizer mix to Celadon City to hopefully give it some carbohydrates from the sugar which has been completely dissolved in the concoction overnight. Treecko is the only really healthy looking plant in the planter. More later.
Too early to tell if it is two growth tips or just one but I will let you know at a later time. Bellsprout is doing well, it has many crowded nodes at the top of a long stem, which has almost completely healed from me trying to peel off the cotyledon, milk, leaves. 
... There is also Roselia, and an insignificant dying pokemon, in Pallet Town who is being shaded by Bellsprout so I have to continually move the pot around.
